Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [art] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He tried to find himself a new girl to take his mind off it : some new girl , because Peg had gone wrong . |
| 2 | Tonight he had been immersed in scenes of Mafia violence and found himself the next moment slumped in the Chesterfield staring at silver snow on the screen . |
| 3 | Only recently he 'd bought more land off the Roscarrocks ( who were selling to pay their church fines ) and built himself a new house made of ship 's beams and red brick , with upstairs rooms , a panelled hall , latticed windows and six curly chimneys . |
| 4 | Reasoning from this he made himself a jading substance compounded of stoat 's liver and rabbit 's liver , dried and powdered up and added to dragon 's blood which was a code name among the old horsemen for one of their more powerful jading substances . |
| 5 | Do not give yourself a nervous breakdown trying to prepare and cook three courses on the day perfectly and on time . |
| 6 | Nor could the exchange avoid these sort of issues by simply granting itself a general power to do whatever it wanted . |
| 7 | nQue fancies itself a non-threatening bridge to migrate Windows users painlessly to Unix and snatch them , in the process , from the jaws of Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT . |
| 8 | NQue fancies itself a non-threatening bridge to migrate Windows users painlessly to Unix and snatch them , in the process , from the jaws of Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT . |
| 9 | It 's really weird my mu erm one of my mum 's friends who 's a bit of goer , she 's got herself a new bloke called Jim yeah and he looks exactly like Jimmi Hendrix and he plays the guitar . |
| 10 | If you can aim squarely , hold the club correctly and form a good stance , then you give yourself the best chance to strike the ball correctly . |
| 11 | SERVANT : My lady , a gentleman calling himself the noble Spaniard waits to see you . |
| 12 | An anonymous caller to a newspaper claimed that a ( previously unknown ) Islamic fundamentalist group calling itself the Islamic Movement had killed Ucok because of her secularist and feminist stand against the current fundamentalist campaign for the veiling of women . |
| 13 | Other incidents included explosions on April 2 and 3 , 1989 , which caused damage at the British Cultural Centre in Kizilay ; a group calling itself the Revolutionary Left claimed responsibility . |
| 14 | He permitted himself a few seconds to savour his revenge , before delivering the coup de grace with a heti'i power-kick , which would snap Grant 's neck like a dried stick . |
| 15 | Out-of-favour Neil Webb is giving himself a two-month deadline to get back into favour at Old Trafford . |
| 16 | Hen birds store sperm until the eggs need to be fertilised : the male 's behaviour ensured that this store was at least partially emptied before he inseminated the female , thereby giving himself a better chance to fertilise the eggs . |
| 17 | None the less , throughout the autumn and the cold winter that followed , those three hundred yards became three hundred years each and every time , the sign of her defeat , the sign of her capture — she felt herself a wild animal tamed and she devoted herself to Maggie with what appeared to be maternal passion mainly because she felt guilty at her lack of joy in it . |
| 18 | Before splashing out on a travel cot , ask yourself the following questions to make sure you buy one that really going to do the job you want it to : |
| 19 | She gave herself a full minute to find her bearings in this mute kingdom , and her senses made the adjustment gratefully . |
| 20 | Just leave yourself a little bit to write underneath it . |
| 21 | ‘ I mean , when are you going to get yourself a decent place to live ? ’ |
| 22 | The Government have given themselves a permanent contributions holiday by no longer making an Exchequer contribution to the national insurance fund . |
| 23 | The privatised boards have given themselves an inbuilt incentive to exploit their monopoly position . |